Congress President Election: Rahul Likely To Win Unopposed, Posters Come Up Outside Party’s Office

Congress Vice Preident Rahul Gandhi, who today filed his nomination papers for election to the party's top post, is likely to be declared the President of the party by the end of the day, NDTV has reported.

No one else filed papers till Sunday, according to Mullapally Ramachandran, the chairman of the party's Central Election Authority.

"So far 90 nomination forms have been given out to state unit delegates. No application for nomination has been submitted so far and tomorrow is the last date for filing nominations," Ramachandran had said on Sunday.

The 47-year-old Gandhi scion is likely to emerge as the lone candidate in the fray and decks have been cleared for his election as the Congress president, succeeding his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has held the post for 19 years in a row now.

Posters congratulating Rahul Gandhi for elevation to the party’s top post have already have come up outside the All India Congress Committee office in Delhi.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh are among the proposers for the candidature of Rahul Gandhi for the party chief's post.

The last date for withdrawal of candidature is December 11, and the poll, if necessary, will be held on December 16 and the counting will take place on December 19.

With inputs from PTI